Inventor of the world's first traffic lights. Engineer and railway manager from Nottingham.
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John Peake Knight
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Peake Knight, 1st traffic lights
City of Westminster John Peake Knight, 1828 - 86, inventor of the world's fi...
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A. A. Langley
Engineer. His name appears on a stone at Abbey Road DLR Station. We have found references to him on-line as an engineer and chief engineer on several railways in Britain. Abbey Road DLR Station was...
1 memorial
Sir Follett Holt, KBE
Railway engineer, very influential in Argentina where he was Chairman of many railway companies. Excelled at polo as a young man. First Chairman of the Tower Hill Improvement Trust. Our picture co...
1 memorial
William Felton
It was in William Felton's carriage works in Leather Lane that Trevithick's steam-powered carriage was built.
1 memorial
Thames Tunnel Flood - 1828
During construction, the tunnel was flooded on six separate occasions the worst being the second flooding, on 12 January 1828, in which six workmen died. "Near shift change. Isambard was in the sh...
1 memorial
Thomas Tredgold
Engineer, specialising initially in carpentry and wood. Born near Durham.
2 memorials
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Tachbrook - Foundation
SW1, Bessborough Street
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
3 subjects commemorated
Kelvin at IC
SW7, Prince Consort Road, Imperial College
This building, the Royal School of Mines, (1906, Aston Webb). has 34 memorials: a foundation stone, 2 busts and 30 scientists' surnames p...
1 subject commemorated
National Portrait Gallery - Hogarth
WC2, Charing Cross Road
This building, 1896, designed by Ewan Christian, has 18 busts contained in medallions around the top of the facades. Starting at the east...
1 subject commemorated
Walter Sickert
N5, Highbury Place, 1
There has been a plaque on this building since at least 2000, commemorating Sickert’s occupancy. It read: “Historic Building. W. R. Sick...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Ada Salter
Socialist and pacifist. Born Ada Brown at Raunds, Northamptonshire. She joined the West London Mission to work among the London poor, and in 1897 transferred to the Bermondsey Settlement, where she...
6 memorials
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